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Starring:
James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Nick Adams, Dennis Hopper, Ann Doran, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Corey Allen, Edward Platt
Directed By:
Nicholas Ray
Written By:
Stewart Stern
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
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Dean's Best
Just the best film ever made about the teen angst experience.
James Dean in his greatest role shines with both tough guy appeal and sweet, vulnerable and everything a human should be. You connect with him and you just want to hold him in your arms and tell him that it will be all right, that someday he will be understood. But you know it isn't true.
Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo are great, despite whatever famed events were taking place on set. Wood breaks your heart in her love for Dean and so does Mineo. In one of the earliest homosexual love stories, Dean and Mineo subtley play out their affection with great sacrifice and eventual tragedy.
This is one of the most important films of the 1950s and shouldn't be written off as a sexual symbol piece, it is so much deeper than that.
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